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Royal Treatment

It’s been hard to escape the buzz of the pending wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton which is coming up on April 29th. The other night I caught a few minutes of a special on 20/20 about the wedding as well as some of the behind the scenes stories of the royal family.

I’ll admit the whole “royal family” stuff intrigues me. While I know it really does nothing to make our country move forward I kind of wish we had a royal family deal here in the U.S. and I kind of wish it included me. I don’t really want to be the King (too much work) but I wouldn’t mind being his cousin.

The program on 20/20 said that Prince Charles actually has someone who squeezes his toothpaste onto the brush for him. Really? Are you kidding me?

So it got me thinking. For a moment let’s forget about our calling to serve instead of be served (don’t Jesus Juke me).

If you were royalty what’s one daily activity you would most look forward to giving up?

Me? I would give up shaving. I like the idea of sitting in a chair every morning and having someone shave me with a straight razor. That’s royal treatment to me.

No question – I’d have a driver. Everywhere. Even down the block to the store. I really don’t like to drive and as a mom and youth volunteer I do it all the time (thankfully, happily) BUT if I could have any “royal treatment,” I’d definitely go for the chauffeur!

LOL! Sorry Pete, my husband does the grocery shopping and school lunches too. He even does 90% of the cooking in our house. It doesn’t make other husbands look bad, just makes OURS look REALLY good!! 😉

Squeezing toothpaste has always been great fun. But plugging the mini-usb into my Blackberry at the end of the day…sometimes it goes in just fine, then sometimes I go crazy trying to make it fit. I’d just hand it to my full-time Blackberry plugger guy and tell him to do it for me. Pure luxury.

Paper writing. As a college student, paper writing is the staple of my daily activities. If I could have someone just write my papers for me (and EDIT them also), that would free up most of my day! Luxurious, I tell you.

I’m rubbish with history – but you could have a royal family if it hadn’t been for the 4th July!!! 😉

And I seriously doubt Prince Charles has someone squeeze toothpaste for him!!! lol. The royal family contrary to popular belief are a lot more self-sufficient than that. For sure his sons are pretty used to ‘roughing it’ being active members of our Royal Forces – Kate & Wills will be living in the back of beyond once married in RAF accommodation. Hardly Buckingham Palace…

In fact, did you know that I might have ended up studying in the same classes as Prince William had I gone to St Andrew’s University (instead of Aberdeen)….yep, we started uni the same year doing the same course!! My friend Katharine studied in the same classes as him.

Anyway, if I was a Princess, then I might never wash dishes ever again….

As much as I’d love to be driven around, I think I’d have to go with a Clothes-Handler (that would be the official title). This person would be in charge of laundry and picking out my clothes each day. I do not enjoy either of those tasks.

I’d definitely have someone do my hair every day. I think someone putting my toothpaste on my toothbrush would gross me out a little. I don’t even like it when my husband does that. Shh…don’t tell him…it is a little thing he does to be nice and I can appreciate that. Happy Easter!

OK, I can squeeze my own toothpaste onto my toothbrush (although my husband might argue about the whole squeeze-it-from-the-bottom-not-from-the-middle problem.)
I would so love to have someone do my hair every day.
Any takers?
Didn’t think so.

Do they have to go to doctor appointments and sit and wait for a doctor who is always bhehind schedule or do you think the doctor comes their house (palace, whatever)? Personal doctor would be great. Other than that, shaving would be cool, especially if they put the hot towel on the face afterwards.

Dishes! I will drive myself, comb my own hair, iron ’til the kids come home (there are no cows anywhere near me) and brush my teeth, but if someone would pleasepleaseplease take care of the never ending downer that is doing the dishes and keeping the dishwasher ready to receive dishes, I would feel like a princess forever!

I would love for someone to organize my bills. Pay my bills and then just say here this is what you have left over for fun. This is your gas money, your grocery money, ect. But they would take the time to send in my bills, offerings, tithes, and savings.

being a resident of the UK, and being brought up with the royal family in the air so to speak, I have to say that I find it unlikely that the toothpaste comment on your show was accurate… but then its not like I know the dude personally so I cant say for sure… I also have to say that as one of the people that pays the wages of his staff (me and all the other tax payers in the UK) I would be very unhappy if it were true – I cant help think that my money could be better spent on, say, a hospital nurse or a teacher…

To get to your question, my answer is unoriginal… I would have someone do all my housework. My wife has not been well for a long time and she really struggles to look after my baby girl (soon to be girls) and keep up with the housework – so I tend to do most of it when I get home from work… I leave the house at 0530 and dont get to sit down and stop till 2030/2100 thats a long shift in anyones book haha…